News parade : the American newsreel and the world as spectacle / Joseph Clark.

Author: Clark, Joseph, 1975- author.

ImprintMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

Description263 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note:Introduction. "History of the most graphic and thrilling sort" : the history of the newsreel, the newsreel as history -- News parade : the logic of the newsreel system -- Newsreel realism : redefining the real in motion picture news -- "Heroes of the lens" : newsreel cameramen, the Sino-Japanese War, and looking as action -- "Come along. We're going to the Trans-Lux to hiss Roosevelt" : modernity, virtual travel and the newsreel cinema as public forum -- Double vision : World War Two, racial uplift, and politics of visibility in the all-American newsreel -- Conclusion. News parade's gone by?

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"A look at the United States' conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreel."-- Provided by publisher.

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